Joni Eareckson Tada, popular evangelical author and radio host, believes that American Christians should stand up for what is biblically right, especially when it comes to physician-assisted suicide.
Physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients has now made its way into six states in the U.S., and even majority of Christians believe it is the right thing to do. However, Eareckson Tada believes that to allow assisted suicide is to compromise one's moral standards.
"I think a lot of Christians are throwing in the towel and feeling like the culture is so large and so massive that there is nothing that we can do to change it and so, they are just ascribing to the notions and the cultural messages that they hear in the newspaper and magazines or across the backyard fence," she told The Christian Post.
"Our choices do count. Our voice and vote do count. If we don't speak up at Starbucks and if we don't speak up across the backyard fence, if we don't write letters to the editor when we read things in the newspaper, then we are pushing culture the other way," she continued.
She thinks America is headed towards a downward "slippery slope," and the best solution to save the country is to pray to God. With prayer and God's grace and guidance, Eareckson Tada hopes that America would avoid hitting rock bottom and manage to climb its way out of the "miry pit" it has dug for itself.
Meanwhile, Eareckson Tada also discussed her newest 365-day devotional called "A Spectacle of Glory: God's Light Shining through Me Every Day." The difference between this devotional and the ones she wrote in the past is that the vignettes are "shorter," "beefier," and "meatier."
"It is not just for people with disabilities, it's for people with struggles and feel like they are defeated before the day has hardly begun," she said. "It's for anybody who just needs direction and wants to follow God down a hard and difficult path."
